Montezuma Mining-Thames Papers Past Daily Southern Cross 14 August 1869 Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 I the undersigned Martin SHOLL, hereby make application to register "The Montezuma Goldmising Company (Registered)," under the provisions of "The Mining Companies' Limited Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, trued in every particular, namely: 1. The name and style of the company is "The Montezuma Goldming Company (Registered)." 2. The place of operations is at the head of Wiseman's and Tinker's Gullies, at the Thames Goldfield, in the province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand. 3. The nominal capital of the Company is Twenty Thousand Pounds, in Twenty thousand shares of One Pound each. 4. The amount already (nominally) paid up is Seventeen shillings and sixpence per share allotted to original shareholders of the Company, as the estimated value of the property. 5. The name of the manager is Martin SCHOLL. 6. The Office of the company is in Queen-street, Auckland. 7. The names and several residences of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follows, namely: - David Boosie CRUIKSHANK, Auckland-400 shares James CRUIKSHANK, Auckland-400 John Ebenezer WHITE, Auckland-400 James RUSSELL, Auckland-400 William ROWE, Shortland Auckland-400 John George FREER, Auckland -600 shares John DARBY, Auckland-400 shares Fred Henry LEWISSON, Auckland-300 Matilda FURLEY, Onehunga-200 shares Robert Gordon MACDONALD, Auckland-200 shares William CARPENTER, Auckland-200 Rudolph MOELLER, Shortland-400 J.T. STRAKOSH, Auckland-400 William POSSENISKIE, Auckland-400 George GILES, Auckland-400 George CORNISH, Shortland-400 John CORNISH, Shortland-400 Andrew LANDMARK-400 Robert FARMER-400 William TAPP, Onehunga-400 Thomas REYNOLDS, Grahamstown-400 Thomas Henry CRAWFORD, Auckland-400 Robert Henry BARTLETT, Auckland-400 Walter James HILL, Auckland-400 George TAYLOR, Auckland-400 David JONES, Auckland-400 James GILBERT Auckland-400 Edward WOOLFIELD Auckland -200 George MULLIN, Auckland -200 Richard GARNETT, Auckland -200 Hugh RAE, Shortland-400 John MCGINLEY, Shortland -400 Patrick QUINN, Shortland -200 James KERR, Shortland -200 William AITKIN, Auckland-400 George EMBLETON, Shortland-400 John MURDOCK, Grahamstown-1,000 Edward MURDOCK, Grahamstown -1,000 Fred DOMKE, Grahamstown -1,000 Thomas BRENAN, Onehunga-400 John BRENAN, Onehunga -400 Michael BRENAN, Onehunga -400 James, Phillip, and Edward CORBETT, Grahamstown-400 Benjamin HOOKER, Auckland-400 George EMBLETON, Shortland-1000 Martin SHOLL (in trust for the company)-2,000, Dated this thirteenth day of August, 1869 MARTIN SHOLL-Manager, Witness to signature- (Signed) ALAN BAILLIE, JUN. A Justice of the Peace of the Colony of New Zealand.